The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

has been such drain on the parent road, the
Pennsylvania, that but little attention has been
devoted 20 keeping 1t in repair. Consequently,
when the steeitracking commenced some sur
prise was expressed, and efforts to find out the
cause for the display of enterprise were or no
avail 1t now transpires that the improvements
is with the intention of making the Indianapolis
e. Vinceunes part of the Pennsylvania main
line west and southwest In connection with the
Ohio g. Mississippi road TO ST. Louis. When
the Pennsylvania people discovered their pre-
dicameut in reference to the loss OF the Van
dalla, they found several gateways open into ST
Louis but there objections to all of them
The Ohio G. Mississippi connection was TO be
preferred, for the reason that it was shorter,
more direct and arrangements had to be made
with but one road, the Pennsylvania accomplish
ing part of the distance with its own road, the
Indianapolis 81 Vincennes; but while 1t was pref
cradle on this account, It was not desirable be-
cause of it's previous utilization and connection
with the Baltimore 81 Ohio management ana It's
supposed friendliness now. The friendship,
however, was not more than skin-deep, ana the
Pennsylvania people soon became Convinced the
OHIO g. Mississippi would rather prefer 10 JOIN
hands against the Baltimore a. Ohio than any
thing else. 49,
Then the Ohio &c Mississippi found itself
pinched for terminals and depot facilities IN
Cincinnati and traced its hardships to the Balti-
more management There was no rehef for this
apparently and the Ohio d Mississippi began to
talk of taking it's management away from Cln-
cinnati Then an alliance was suggested with
the Pennsylvania and the correspondent Is
informed that since then several conferences
have been neld between the 1opnsylVduid anu
Ohio e. Mississippi people, and that a PROPOSE
lion is now being considered by them whereby
the Ohio e. Mississippi will have the beneht OF
the heavy traffic the Pennsylvania west and
southwest and will in return give the Penn
sylvania the best of facilities through to It's
western outlets with as unobstructed use OF the
tracks OF the Ohio e. Mississippi as if il owned
them The alliance will also, it is said, be able
to seriously cripple the Ives syndicate in its plan
20 take the Baltimore g. Ohio into St Louis and
thus make a new through trunk line. under one
management, from the seacoast to the Missls-
Iippi river 1t seems from a story confdentially
told in Pennsylvania circles here. that the Baiti-
more d Ohio manipulators have in their Van
aalia acquisition bought pig in the poke:
tits claimed here that the Vandalia has no
entrance into East St Louis and that 1t cannot
take the Baltimore g. Ohio nearer than three
miles to it's Western connections. and that be-
tween the two points there is nothing but rail-
road property, which is held very high and can
not be acquired The Vandalia, 1t seems runs
on Ohio a. Mississippi property, and has simply
been tolerated in the past. Some years ago the
Ohio 81 Mississippi brought suit against the VAN
dalia, but did not push the same. The agree
ment now proposed between the Ohio 81 Mis-
sissIppi and the Pennsylvania contemplates the
resurrection of this suit, and an Injunction pre-
venting the vandalia from longer using the prop
erty of the Ohio & Mississippi. A prominent
Pittsburc, Cincinnati & St Louis official sale
tonight that he thought the prospects were good
for keeping the Baltimore a. Ohio out at both
ends of its great trunk line leaving it beginning
and ending at no place This being the condi-
ton of affairs il is difficult to just what the
Baltimore has gained by the march 1t has stolen.
1t is said here that Pennsylvania business will
be entirely withdrawn Immediately from the
Vandalia. and that its traffic will. within few
days, be moving so smoothly on the Indianapo-
lis e. Vincennes and the Ohio a. Mississippi
that no one will know that anything has hap
pened.